Conclusion and consolidation for my work forward: A landscape is a cultural constructed image. In visual art and especially painting typically viewed as a framed image. For me the question can I embed this in my work? How can I apply perspective in a different way (see my painting in Project 1 Ex 1 ‘Linear perspective‘)? How can I incorporate architectural…

This exercise will require some time and some efforts especially as it was getting cold outside. I decided to paint a place not far from my Swiss home in Bern. Close there is the ancient river Aare. In summer time the river is full of water but in fall time the water is low and one river bed is dry.…

Aerial perspective as an artistic device. The term was invented by Leonardo da Vinci. There is a saying by Leonardo “Thus if one is to be five times as distant, make it five times bluer.” HE also said that the more distant the objects the more they approach the color of the surrounding atmosphere. Claude Lorrain and W.M.W. Turner made this term…

Landscape painting is a wide area and I feel that I have to condense my research to the most relevant ones to my own approach. I will look rather at those artists that attract my attention either by visual impact, uncommon use of material, or unique perspective and approaches. Landscape can have a meaning from idyl, refuge and retreat from…

Exhibition ‘Jean Dubuffet – Metamorphoses of Landscape’ in Foundation Beveler, Basel (Switzerland) from 31 Jan – 08 May 2016 (click here – accessed 08 May 2016). Flyer click here. [accessed 08 May 2016]. Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) is one of the artists who re-defined art of the second half of the 20th century. After years of running a wholesale wine business in…